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It's not even close. Nuclear is so much better than coal it's unbelievable.
Just to start with coal releases orders of magnitude more radiation than nuclear. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...
Then the number of deaths from coal, take a look at the numbers:
Coal: 100,000 deaths per PWh.
Nuclear: 0.1 deaths per PWh.
That means coal is 1 MILLION times worse than nuclear. I mean seriously, what else would it take to convince someone?
Let's see, what's worse? Taking 10 years to do something, or killing 1 million times as many people?
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It's not even close. Nuclear is so much better than coal it's unbelievable.
Just to start with coal releases orders of magnitude more radiation than nuclear. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...
Then the number of deaths from coal, take a look at the numbers:
Coal: 100,000 deaths per PWh.
Nuclear: 0.1 deaths per PWh.
That means coal is 1 MILLION times worse than nuclear. I mean seriously, what else would it take to convince someone?
Let's see, what's worse? Taking 10 years to do something, or killing 1 million times as many people?